Sam Houston, Democratic candidate for the Place 7 seat on the Texas Supreme Court, met with supporters in Beaumont on July 31. Campaigning on a platform that the current court is too favorable to corporate defendants, the Democratic nominee for justice of the Texas Supreme Court Place 7 stumped in Beaumont Thursday, July 31.

ORANGE -- When the car in front of Terri Franklin blew a tire, she was suddenly pummeled by pieces of flying rubber. The shower of debris allegedly caused Franklin to lose control and flip her vehicle.

GALVESTON Ã¯Â¿Â½ A Corpus Christi seaman seeks $2.5 million in damages from a Newport News, Va.-based maritime company for multiple injuries he allegedly sustained while on a commercial fishing expedition in New York, court documents say.

Byram Hurst TEXARKANA, Ark. Ã¯Â¿Â½ An Arkansas soil conservationist is seeking more than $5 million from his supervisors and coworkers for spreading rumors about his mental health and creating a hostile work environment more than 20 years ago.

ORANGE Ã¯Â¿Â½ Just a few weeks ago, Megan Norris was riding on a Sea-Doo when she slipped off the rear of the watercraft directly into the path of the water thrust by the jet pump, which "penetrated her orifices," court papers say.

In a case of brother versus brother, Montgomery County District Judge Frederick Edwards committed 13 errors in favor of the brother with the law license, according to the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont.

Montgomery County can condemn state forest land by eminent domain, take ownership and return the land to the state, Ninth District appeals judges ruled as they marveled at how such a process could lead to a lawsuit.